Quotation by Baltasar Gracián
Measure your efforts according to the people you deal with.
Modern translation by the editorial team, based on the cited French edition.
Title of a maxim, translated from the historical French edition. Read in the context of seventeenth-century court society.
Original French text
Se mesurer selon les gens.L’Homme de cour, maxime LVIII, traduction Amelot de la Houssaie, 1684